King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and that is why these powers are at work in him.”
For the word of the Lord has reverberated out from y’all, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your* faith in God has spread everywhere. We don’t even need to say anything,
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
Instead, he went out and began to proclaim it freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer openly enter into a city, but stayed outside in lonely places. Still people came to him from everywhere.
In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.